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Doctors have seen a four-fold increase in the number of children and teenagers
admitted to hospital for problems linked to obesity.

The increase in admissions from 872 to 3,806 occurred in the space of a decade
from 2000 and 2009. The findings suggest that obesity is increasingly the
cause of acute health problems in childhood.

Sonia Saxena, from the School of Public Health at Imperial College London, who
led the study, said: “The burden of obesity is usually thought to have its
serious consequences in adulthood, but we now see it manifesting earlier.”